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Bee Balm Balmy Purple

Purple / Focal

‘Balmy Purple’ is a compact purple bee balm in the Balmy™ series, useful for growers who want a tidy, pollinator-friendly perennial with aromatic foliage and bright summer color. It is best treated as a short-stem specialty crop, plant-sale perennial, and local bouquet accent rather than a high-volume cut flower. The crop’s success depends on clean foliage, airflow, drip irrigation, and honest market positioning around its dwarf habit.

Bee Balm Cambridge Scarlet

Red / Focal

Bee Balm ‘Cambridge Scarlet’ is a vivid scarlet-red Monarda for growers who want a fragrant, pollinator-rich, garden-style perennial stem. It brings energy, movement, and a distinctive whorled shape to summer bouquets. The crop is best planted from plugs or divisions, spaced generously, and sold locally while fresh. Its biggest management issue is powdery mildew, so clean foliage, airflow, and clump renewal matter more than squeezing plants tightly into the bed.

Bee Balm Croftway Pink

Pink / Focal

‘Croftway Pink’ bee balm is a clear rose-pink, aromatic perennial that gives a flower farm a romantic summer Monarda option with pollinator energy, fragrance, and distinctive whorled texture. It is best treated as a local fresh-cut crop in a semi-permanent perennial bed. Its success depends on moisture, airflow, mildew prevention, timely harvest, and a market that appreciates scented garden flowers. Use it in small to medium blocks until local stem length, mildew pressure, and buyer response are proven.

Bee Balm Gardenview Scarlet

Red / Focal

‘Gardenview Scarlet’ is a vivid scarlet-red bee balm that can act as a bold summer accent in local bouquets and a strong pollinator plant in perennial beds. It is best for growers who want dramatic red, aromatic foliage, and cottage-garden character, not for growers needing perfectly straight, long-stemmed wholesale flowers. Manage it as a vigorous perennial clump with extra attention to mildew, airflow, and harvest timing.

Bee Balm Jacob Cline

Red / Focal

‘Jacob Cline’ bee balm is a bold, scarlet-red, aromatic perennial that gives a flower farm a distinctive summer stem with pollinator energy, scent, and strong local-flower identity. It is not a low-maintenance commodity crop; its success depends on moisture, airflow, mildew prevention, timely harvest, and a market that appreciates garden-style texture. Use it as a permanent or semi-permanent bed crop, harvest fresh for local customers, and divide clumps every few years to keep production strong.

Bee Balm Lambada

Pink / Focal

‘Lambada’ is a distinctive annual bee balm grown from seed for lavender-pink, whorled filler stems with an oregano-like herbal scent. It is a good candidate for subscription bouquets, farmstand bunches, and naturalistic wedding work because it adds a tiered texture that few common annuals provide. Plan it as a specialty filler rather than a main crop: start plugs early, space for airflow, harvest while the whorls are fresh, and remove or succession the crop when mildew or age reduces quality.

Bee Balm Lemon Balm

Purple / Focal

Bee Balm ‘Lemon Balm’ is best understood as lemon-scented Monarda citriodora: a seed-grown, aromatic, pollinator-friendly annual or short-lived biennial that produces stacked whorls of lavender-pink flowers and pale bracts on square stems. It is a useful specialty filler for growers who want fragrance, movement, herbal character, and a wildflower look in bouquets. It is not a commodity cut flower and should not be planned like a tall perennial bee balm cultivar; instead, treat it as a seasonal filler crop that earns its place through uniqueness, scent, drying value, and local storytelling.

Bee Balm Petite Delight

Pink / Focal

Bee Balm ‘Petite Delight’ is a dwarf lavender-pink Monarda for growers who want a fragrant, pollinator-rich perennial accent without the height and lodging of older bee balms. It is compact, aromatic, and visually charming, but it should be planned honestly as a short-stem bouquet and posy crop. The best farm use is local: subscriptions, jars, small mixed bouquets, farm shop bunches, and potted perennial sales. Its greatest production risk is not plant survival, but clean marketable foliage during humid summer weather.

Bee Balm Prairie Night

Purple / Focal

‘Prairie Night’ is a tall purple bee balm with strong cottage-garden character and better cut potential than short bedding monardas. It brings a moody violet-purple accent, aromatic foliage, and an obvious pollinator story to summer bouquets. It should be grown as a specialty perennial stem rather than as a commodity crop, with clean foliage and mildew management treated as the main quality controls.